“If you were going to be successful in the world of crime, you needed a reputation for honesty.”

“Tell someone you are going to rob them and all that will happen is that you'll get a reputation as a truthful man.”

“Little crimes breed big crimes. You smile at little crimes and then big crimes blow your head off.”

“If you had enough money, you could hardly commit crimes at all. You just perpetrated amusing little peccadilloes.”

“... all reputable falconers agreed that for hunting purposes the only way you could reliably bring down prey with a wowhawk was by using it in a slingshot.”

“The past needs to be remembered. If you do not know where you come from, then you don’t know where you are, and if you don’t know where you are, then you don’t know where you’re going.”

“There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.”